It was named in honor of the British Astronomer Royal Sir George Biddell Airy ( 1801-1892 ), who in 1850 built the transit circle telescope at Greenwich.
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The University paid for an extensive restoration and conservation program of the building and the three main telescopes, the Equatorial, the Transit Circle and the Sidereostatic telescope.
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The advantage of a transit circle over a mural circle ( which can measure polar distances ) is that it allows measuring right ascension and declination at the same time.
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The transit circle was capable of determining both right ascension and declination of a star, unlike the more simple and common transit instrument that can only determine the right ascension.
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The meridian was moved around 10 metres or so east on three occasions as transit circles with newer and better instruments were built, on each occasion next door to the existing one.
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The making of circles was shortly afterwards taken up by Edward Troughton, who constructed the first modern transit circle in 1806 for Blackheath, the Groombridge Transit Circle ( a meridian transit circle ).
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The Airy Transit Circles at the Royal Greenwich Observatory ( 1851 ) and that at the Royal Observatory, Cape of Good Hope ( 1855 ) were made by Ransomes and May of Ipswich.
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The making of circles was shortly afterwards taken up by Edward Troughton, who constructed the first modern transit circle in 1806 for Blackheath, the Groombridge Transit Circle ( a meridian transit circle ).
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The making of circles was shortly afterwards taken up by Edward Troughton, who constructed the first modern transit circle in 1806 for Blackheath, the Groombridge Transit Circle ( a meridian transit circle ).
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"' Groombridge Transit Circle "'was a meridian transit circle made by Edward Troughton for Stephen Groombridge in 1806, which Groombridge used to compile data for the star catalogue, " Catalogue of Circumpolar Stars ".
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